Essay

The civil rights protests that enveloped the nation in the summer of 1964 occurred against the backdrop of the slow, uncertain progress of the legislation that would eventually become known as the Civil Rights Act. Students in Wilson, North Carolina, took to the streets of this small city in the eastern portion of the state in the early 1960s, inspired by the Greensboro Sit-ins of 1960.

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What I know about the Vietnam War, I learned as a child from my father, Louis Raynor. At thirteen years old, I discovered an old, tattered, leather-bound diary in my parents’ chest of drawers. When I opened it, I immediately recognized my father’s handwriting. I was intrigued so I quietly took the small book and ran off to read it. Over the years, from his war diary and photographs, our many conversations, and oral history interviews, my father answered my endless questions about Vietnam.